Wednesday Workings, July 8, 2026

Kittens is finished.  I had a difficult time finding the right binding fabric, but ended up liking this fabric quite a bit.  Which block do you like best?  I will soon be sharing the Teddy Bear blocks.  I have about five of them done.  I can tell now that it will be a cute quilt too.

The second table runner from mom's stash is on my design wall.  I added a couple of pinks and the inner border fabric to bring out the focus fabric.  A decision on the outer border will be next to make.

All the units for Cherry Crunch are ready to put this project together.  I will be making 56 of the block shown at the bottom (instruction).  Going to take a bit of time to accomplish this part.  So I don't get to bored the small easy projects like the table runner create a good distraction.

I must get back to my UFOs =^.^=

I finished the The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane...great read.  Now I am on to Black Cake...the jury is out on this one that I am not too far into.

Design Wall Monday, July 6 2026

I am back to working on Cherry Crunch today.  It isn't quite ready for my design wall.  I have finished all the 2.5" x 4.5" neutral strip units, 448 of them.  The red 2.5" squares are next to work on.  I need a diagonal line on them, again 448 of these.  They are all cut and ready.  These red squares are stitched on the strip unit.  That's all the units for the center of the quilt.  It will be surrounded by a neutral inner border.  

Finally a red 4.5" red strip border is to be attached.  I have a bunch of red strips ready to stitch.  I will skip forward to these today.

Later once the whole chicken is in the oven for dinner tonight; I will be marking the red squares.  I also plan to cut another table runner from mom's stash.

I have a book to finish before the SD Library takes it away =^.^=  I am on Part 2 of 4 in the book The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane. It is amazing to me the traditions that are passed down in China even today.

Go USA in the chase for the FIFA World Cup Trophy. 

Sunday Stash Report, July 5, 2026

 

Let me start the day with fabrics purchased.  It was a day at Rosie's to get the last fabrics for a few projects.  This first background fabric was needed to complete a table runner from my mom's stash gathered last August.

Next up is the darker pink at the bottom of this photo for Kittens.  The two pieces on top were also considered along with countless grays.  I did settle on the darker pink and the binding prepared along with half way around on the hand stitching.  This is as cute as the Ducks from all that I have cross stitched to date.

I am trying to add to a lone Winnie the Pooh redwork block that my grandmother made.  I found these embroidery transfers, but they are a bit to small.  A suggestion was to stitch them out and than go from there on a design for the project.  Well I really didn't want to go that way so back to ETSY to find embroidery transfers thta were larger.  With a little help from the ETSY Seller, I found larger "Hoop" sized PDFs that she sells.  She led me to understand how to go about using the PDFs.  Needless to say I have the PDFs and now waiting on Amazon to bring me the transfer paper that will work with my printer.  The purchase of fabric here is two whites that closely work well with the original fabric.  Wish me luck with this new for me endeavor.

These last three fabrics had the Rosie's group helping me audition.  The two blues in the first photo one out.  I decided adding, although I like it, the red made the project look too patriotic for my liking.  The blue diagonal print was quite literally found by chance.

Here is the table runner complete.  I have another focus fabric to work with for a second of this design.  I will be working it into my queue =^.^=

Here is the Joe's Ties quilt top complete.  Right now the plan is to use the outside border fabric as the binding too.  I am real excited to have this done in plenty of time before it is needed for Christmas.

Seven fabrics at a yard a piece get added and two projects are ready for quilting!

Used this week: 8 yards
Used YTD: 173.5 yards 
Purchased this week: 7 yards
Purchased YTD: 43.5 yards
Net used in 2026: 130 yards